Bibliograph

Kingdom of children, culture and controversy in the homeschooling movement, Mitchell L. Stevens

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Kingdom of children, culture and controversy in the homeschooling movement, Mitchell L. Stevens

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-224) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Kingdom of children

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bibliography

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45463545

Responsibility statement

Mitchell L. Stevens

Series statement

Princeton studies in cultural sociology

Sub title

culture and controversy in the homeschooling movement

Summary

More than one million American children are schooled by their parents. As their ranks grow, home schoolers are making headlines by winning national spelling bees and excelling at elite universities. The few studies conducted suggest that homeschooled children are academically successful and remarkably well socialized. Yet we still know little about this alternative to one of society's most fundamental institutions. Mitchell Stevens goes behind the scenes of the homeschool movement. What he finds are two very different kinds of home education--one rooted in the liberal alternative school movement of the 1960s and 1970s and one stemming from the Christian day school movement of the same era. Stevens explains how this dual history shapes the meaning and practice of home schooling today. In the process, he introduces us to an unlikely mix of parents and notes the core values on which they agree: the sanctity of childhood and the primacy of family in the face of a highly competitive, bureaucratized society

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter one: Inside home education -- Chapter two: From parents to teachers -- Chapter three: Natural mothers, godly women -- Chapter four: Authority and diversity -- Chapter five: Politics -- Chapter six: Nurturing the expanded self -- Notes -- Index

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